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From John Murray   23 March [1875]1

50, Albemarle St. | W.

Mar 23

My Dear Sir

Enclosed you will find my cheque for 66 Guis being estimated 23ds profit on the current cheap Edition of your Descent of Man— (2000 copies)2

My Dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | John Murray

Chas Darwin Esq

1
The year is established by the reference to Descent 2d ed. (see n. 2, below).
2
The second edition of Descent was published in one volume, priced at 9s. (Publishers’ circular, 18 December 1874, p. 1142). CD recorded the receipt of £66 3s. on 25 March 1875 in his Account books–banking account (Down House MS). Murray evidently intended to write 63 guineas, equivalent to £66 3s. Murray’s ledger entry (National Library of Scotland, John Murray Archive, Ms. 42732, p. 398) was for £66 3s.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-9899,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-9899